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Events
30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian s forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
904 – Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
1423 – Hundred Years War: Battle of Cravant – the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1451 – Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
1658 – Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1741 – Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
1777 – The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Marquis de Lafayette be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States.
1790 – First U.S. patent is issued to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1865 – The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.
1913 – The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (which comes into force on August 14)
1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow is aired for the first time.
1932 – The NSDAP wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
1936 – The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo. However, the games are given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out, and are eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanta (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia)
1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius in Persepolis.
1940 – A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
1941 – Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question.
1945 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1945 – John K. Giles attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison.
1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
1951 – Japan Airlines is established.
1954 – First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
1956 – Jim Laker sets an extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test, taking nineteen wickets in a first-class match (the previous best was seventeen).
1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1972
Northeast Airlines flies its last flight before being integrated into Delta Air Lines the next day.
Operation Motorman: British troops move into the no-go areas of Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland. End of Free Derry.
1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
1975 – In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 – NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo.
1981 – General Omar Torrijos of Panama dies in a plane crash.
1981 – 42-day strike of Major League Baseball ends in the United States.
1987 – A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
1988 – 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
1991 – The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
1992 – A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.
1999 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector – NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon s surface.
2006 – Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequeña Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated.
2007 – Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.

Births
1143 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
1396 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
1527 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
1598 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
1702 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768)
1704 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
1718 – John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
1724 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
1737 – Princess Augusta of Great Britain (d. 1813)
1777 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (d. 1849)
1803 – John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
1816 – George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
1825 – William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1886)
1835 – Henri Brisson, French statesman (d. 1912)
1835 – Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (d. 1903)
1837 – William Quantrill, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (d. 1865)
1843 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918)
1858 – Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist (d. 1936)
1860 – Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (d. 1940)
1867 – Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant and philanthropist (d. 1966)
1880 – Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936)
1883 – Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965)
1884 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (d. 1945)
1886 – Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure (d. 1931)
1887 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist (d. 1969)
1892 – Joseph Charbonneau, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1959)
1894 – Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (d. 1972)
1901 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
1904 – Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)
1911 – George Liberace, American musician (d. 1983)
1912 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (d. 2008)
1912 – Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)
1912 – Irv Kupcinet, American newspaper columnist (d. 2003)
1913 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian hockey player (d. 1984)
1914 – Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian (d. 1983)
1916 – Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player and official (d. 2006)
1916 – Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)
1916 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist
1918 – Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1918 – Hank Jones, American pianist
1919 – Curt Gowdy, American sports announcer (d. 2006)
1919 – Primo Levi, Italian author and chemist (d. 1987)
1920 – James Esdras Faust, American religious leader (d. 2007)
1921 – Whitney Young, American civil rights activist (d. 1971)
1921 – Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1922 – Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
1923 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-born record company executive (d. 2006)
1923 – Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach and father of Chris Evert
1926 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher
1929 – Don Murray, American actor
1929 – José Santamaria, Uruguayan footballer
1929 – Lynne Reid Banks, British author
1930 – Oleg Popov, Russian clown
1931 – Kenny Burrell, American guitarist
1931 – Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach
1932 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979)
1932 – John Searle, American philosopher
1933 – Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer
1935 – Yvon Deschamps, French-Canadian author and humorist
1935 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor
1936 – Vic Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player
1939 – France Nuyen, French actress
1940 – Carol J. Clover, American academic
1941 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician
1943 – William Bennett, 3rd United States Secretary of Education
1943 – Susan Flannery, American actress
1943 – Lobo, American singer and songwriter
1943 – Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor
1944 – Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
1944 – Jonathan Dimbleby, British journalist and television presenter
1944 – Robert C. Merton, American mathematician
1945 – Gary Lewis, American vocalist (Gary Lewis & the Playboys)
1945 – William Weld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
1946 – Bob Welch, American musician
1946 – Karen Zerby, American religious leader
1950 – Lane Davies, American actor
1950 – Steve Miller, American writer
1951 – Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player
1951 – Barry Van Dyke, American actor
1952 – Chris Ahrens, American ice hockey player
1952 – Alan Autry, American football player and politician
1952 – Helmuts Balderis, Latvian hockey player
1952 – João Barreiros, Portuguese writer
1953 – Ted Baillieu, Australian Politician
1953 – James Read, American actor
1953 – Jimmy Cook, former South African cricketer
1954 – Derek Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Jakie Quartz, French singer
1956 – Michael Biehn, American actor
1956 – Deval Patrick, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
1956 – Bill Callahan, American football coach
1957 – Daniel Ash, British musician (Bauhaus)
1957 – Leon Durham, American baseball player
1957 – Dirk Blocker, American actor
1958 – Bill Berry, American musician (R.E.M.)
1958 – Mark Cuban, American businessman and basketball team owner
1959 – Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
1960 – Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 – John Chiang, American politician
1962 – Kevin Greene, American football player
1962 – Wesley Snipes, American actor
1963 – Brian Skrudland, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Norman Cook, British musician (The Housemartins, Freak Power, Beats International, Fatboy Slim)
1964 – Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1965 – Scott Brooks, American basketball player
1965 – John Laurinaitis, American professional wrestler
1965 – J. K. Rowling, British writer
1965 – Julian Richards, British film director
1966 – Dean Cain, American actor
1967 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
1967 – Mitsuo Iwata, Japanese seiyu
1968 – Saeed-Al-Saffar, Former UAE cricketer
1969 – David Cash, American professional wrestler
1969 – Loren Dean, American actor
1969 – Kenneth D. Schisler, American politician
1970 – Ahmad Akbarpour, Iranian writer
1971 – Gus Frerotte, American football player
1971 – John Lowery, American guitarist
1973 – Chandra North, American supermodel
1973 – Nathan Brown, Australian rugby league player
1974 – Emilia Fox, English actress
1974 – Jonathan Ogden, American football player
1975 – Randy Flores, American baseball player
1975 – Simon Hirst, British radio DJ
1975 – Mike Lincoln, American baseball player
1975 – Poesy Liang, Founder of Helping Angels
1975 – Allan von Schenkel, American musician
1975 – Andrew Hall, Former South African cricketer
1976 – Joshua Cain, American musician (Motion City Soundtrack)
1976 – Annie Parisse, American actress
1976 – Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
1977 – Tim Couch, American football player
1978 – Will Champion, English musician (Coldplay)
1978 – Zeta Makripoulia, Greek actress, model and TV presenter
1978 – Justin Wilson, English race car driver
1979 – J. J. Furmaniak, American baseball player
1979 – Per Krøldrup, Danish footballer
1979 – Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1979 – Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer
1979 – B. J. Novak, American actor
1980 – Mils Muliaina, New Zealand and Waikato rugby player
1981 – Eric Lively, American actor
1981 – J.Son Dinant, American comedian
1981 – Ira Losco, Maltese singer
1981 – Matthew Sanders, American singer (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 – Blessing Mahwire, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 – Glenn Holt, American football player
1986 – Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player
1987 – Michael Bradley, American soccer player
1987 – Brittany Byrnes, Australian Actress
1989 – Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player
1990 – Olga Galchenko, Russian juggler

Deaths
855 – Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)
1396 – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
1508 – Na od, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1494)
1556 – Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest and founder of the Jesuits
1653 – Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
1726 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
1750 – King John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
1784 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (b. 1713)
1864 – Louis Hachette, French publisher (b. 1800)
1875 – Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
1886 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
1914 – Jean Jaurès, French politician (d. 1859)
1917 – Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
1917 – Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887)
1943 – Hedley Verity, English Test cricketer (b. 1905)
1944 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
1953 – Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (b. 1889)
1954 – Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1964 – Jim Reeves, American singer (b. 1923)
1966 – Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (b. 1924)
1970 – Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (b. 1912)
1972 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
1980 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
1980 – Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
1986 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1986 – Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)
1988 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)
1990 – Albert Leduc, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1993 – King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)
1996 – Seagram Miller, American rapper (b. 1970)
2001 – Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)
2001 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
2001 – Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
2003 – Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (b. 1933)
2004 – Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
2004 – Laura Betti, Italian actress (b. 1927)
2005 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (b. 1935)
2006 – Paul Eells, American sportscaster (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances
Hari Pahlawan – Malaysian warrior s day.
Ka Hae Hawai‘i – Hawaiian Flag Day.
End of the Trinity term (sitting of the High Court of Justice of England).
Saint Germanus (died 448), bishop of Auxerre, confessor [Bruges; Paris]
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits

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Events
1419 – First Defenestration of Prague.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1608 – At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
1729 – Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
1756 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1825 – Malden Island is discovered.
1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1863 – Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1866 – New Orleans s Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield s boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ.
1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney s Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short
1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen.
1953 – Rikidozan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
1954 – Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.
1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with U.S. military commanders.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
1990 – The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
2002 – The accounting law referred to as The Sarbanes Oxley Act is signed into law by President George W. Bush.
2003 – In Mexico, the last old style Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 – World s longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

Births
1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, author and architect (d. 1574)
1549 – Ferdinando I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
1751 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (d. 1829)
1763 – Samuel Rogers, English author (d. 1855)
1809 – Charles Chiniquy, Quebec-born excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899)
1818 – Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
1825 – Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (d. 1893)
1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929)
1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
1863 – Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
1872 – Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955)
1881 – Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)
1885 – John Jules Barrish, Irish writer (d. 1939)
1889 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist (d. 1982)
1890 – Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d. 1975)
1893 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)
1895 – Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
1898 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
1899 – Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987)
1901 – Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
1904 – Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (d. 1993)
1910 – Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)
1914 – Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
1916 – Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
1919 – Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
1921 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
1922 – Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
1925 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984)
1925 – Jacques Sernas, French actor
1926 – Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
1927 – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
1928 – Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
1928 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1929 – Sid Krofft, Canadian children s television producer
1933 – Edd Byrnes, American actor
1934 – Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball
1935 – Ted Rogers, English comedian and game show host (d. 2001)
1936 – Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer
1936 – Infanta Pilar of Spain
1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician
1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
1939 – Eleanor Smeal, American feminist
1940 – Pat Schroeder, American politician
1940 – Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor
1941 – Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
1943 – Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician
1945 – Patrick Modiano, French novelist
1945 – David Sanborn, American saxophonist
1946 – Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
1947 – William Atherton, American actor
1947 – Jonathan Mann, AIDS activist (d. 1998)
1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California
1948 – Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
1949 – Duck Baker, American guitarist
1950 – Frank Stallone, American singer and actor
1951 – Alan Kourie, former South African cricketer
1954 – Ken Olin, American actor
1956 – Delta Burke, American actress
1956 – Soraida Martinez, American Painter, Creator of Verdadism.
1956 – Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Anita Hill, American author
1957 – Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
1957 – Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
1957 – Rat Scabies, English drummer (The Damned)
1958 – Kate Bush, English singer/songwriter
1958 – Neal McCoy, American singer/songwriter and humanitarian
1958 – Daley Thompson, English decathlete
1960 – Richard Linklater, American filmmaker
1961 – Laurence Fishburne, American actor
1962 – Alton Brown, American television host and chef
1962 – Jay Feaster, American National Hockey League executive
1963 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress
1963 – Chris Mullin, American basketball player
1964 – Vivica A. Fox, American actress
1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager
1964 – Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-born American film director
1965 – Tim Munton, Former England cricketer
1966 – Allan Langer, Australian Rugby League Player, (Brisbane Broncos & Warrington Wolves)
1968 – Terry Crews, American football player and actor
1968 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete
1968 – Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
1969 – Simon Baker, Australian actor
1969 – Errol Stewart, Former South Afrivan cricketer and lawyer
1970 – Christopher Nolan, English film director
1971 – Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
1971 – Christine Taylor, American actress
1971 – Sagi Kalev, Bodybuilder
1973 – Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player
1973 – Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor
1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress
1974 – Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer
1974 – Jason Robinson, English dual-code rugby player
1974 – Sandra Diaz-Twine, Winner of Survivor: Pearl Islands
1975 – Graham Nicholls, English artist
1975 – Cherie Priest, American writer
1977 – Jaime Pressly, American actress
1977 – Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
1978 – James Branaman, American model and reality show contestant
1979 – Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player
1979 – Show Luo, Taiwanese Singer,Host, Dancer and Actor
1979 – Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
1980 – James Anderson, English cricketer
1980 – Justin Rose, British golfer
1980 – Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
1980 – Chuck Thomas, British TV producer / presenter
1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
1981 – Juan Smith, South African rugby player
1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
1983 – Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
1984 – Gabrielle Christian, American actress
1984 – Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
1985 – Alex Goligoski, American ice hockey player
1985 – Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
2002 – Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal

Deaths
578 – Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
579 – Pope Benedict I
1540 – Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1540 – Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1550 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1652 – Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
1680 – Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
1718 – William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
1771 – Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
1811 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
1875 – George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1889 – Charlie Absolom, Former England cricketer (b. 1846)
1898 – Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)
1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
1912 – Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
1918 – Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
1930 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
1947 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
1965 – Jun ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1970 – George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
1971 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
1982 – Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
1983 – Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1983 – Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
1985 – Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
1989 – Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
1992 – Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1914)
1992 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
1996 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
1997 – B?o Ð?i, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
1998 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
2003 – Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
2004 – Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
2005 – Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
2005 – John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
2005 – Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
2006 – Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
2006 – Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
2006 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
2007 – Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
2007 – Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
2008 – Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances
Vanuatu – Independence Day (formerly Anglo-French condominium of the New Hebrides).

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Events
1014 – Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock.
1030 – Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad – King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1565 – The widowed Mary Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1567 – James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen – France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1793 – John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
1830 – Abdication of Charles X of France.
1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
1847 – Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States.
1848 – Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.
1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding of the Scouting movement.
1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1932 – Great Depression: in Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the Bonus Army of World War I veterans.
1937 – Tongzhou Incident
1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station was launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin opened in London.
1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
1965 – Vietnam War: the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1966 – Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York.
1967 – Vietnam War: off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
1967 – At the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela was shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
1976 – In New York City, the Son of Sam kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
1981 – Marriage of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.
1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Lankan Pact on ethnic issues.
1993 – The Israeli Supreme Court acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
1996 – The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris.
2008 – The Chino Hills earthquake strikes southern California.

Births
1166 – Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
1605 – Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
1763 – Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845)
1797 – Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879)
1801 – George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
1805 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
1846 – Isabel of Brazil
1843 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
1849 – Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1869 – Booth Tarkington, American author (d. 1946)
1872 – Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
1874 – James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
1876 – Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born actress (d. 1949)
1878 – Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
1883 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
1883 – Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
1884 – Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
1885 – Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955)
1887 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
1892 – William Powell, American actor (d. 1984)
1897 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1898 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
1899 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1900 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
1900 – Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
1904 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
1905 – Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
1905 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1905 – Thelma Todd, American actress (d. 1935)
1905 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
1906 – Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
1907 – Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
1911 – Foster Furcolo, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1995)
1911 – Iakovos, Archbishop of America (d. 2005)
1913 – Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
1914 – Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian
1915 – Bruce R. McConkie, LDS apostle and author (d. 1985)
1915 – Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)
1916 – Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
1916 – Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
1918 – Edwin O Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1968)
1920 – Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (d. 1974)
1920 – Neville Jeffress, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia (d. 2007)
1921 – Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)
1923 – Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification
1923 – Gordon Mitchell, American actor (d. 2003)
1924 – Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
1924 – Robert Horton, American actor
1924 – Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
1925 – Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
1925 – Ted Lindsay, Canadian hockey player
1927 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch author
1929 – Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
1930 – Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer
1932 – Nancy Kassebaum Baker, United States Senator from Kansas
1933 – Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
1933 – Colin Davis, British racing driver
1933 – Robert Fuller, American actor
1935 – Peter Schreier, German tenor
1936 – Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
1937 – Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1938 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-born journalist (d. 2005)
1938 – Jean Rochon, Quebec politician
1941 – Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007)
1941 – David Warner, English actor
1942 – Tony Sirico, American actor
1943 – David Taylor, English snooker player
1946 – Neal Doughty, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
1946 – Diane Keen, English actress
1947 – Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (d. 2006)
1949 – Leslie Easterbrook, American actress
1951 – Dan Driessen, American baseball player
1951 – Dean Pitchford, American songwriter, filmmaker and novelist
1953 – Ken Burns, American producer and director
1953 – Geddy Lee, Canadian bassist and singer (Rush)
1953 – Patti Scialfa, American singer, guitarist and songwriter
1953 – Tim Gunn, American television personality
1955 – Dave Stevens, American illustrator
1955 – Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor
1956 – Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
1956 – Ronnie Musgrove, Former Governor of Mississippi
1957 – Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
1957 – Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano
1959 – Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
1959 – Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
1959 – Dave LaPoint, American baseball player
1959 – John Sykes, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Tygers of Pan Tang)
1962 – Vincent Rousseau, Belgian athlete
1962 – Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler
1963 – Graham Poll, English football referee
1963 – Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
1963 – Alexandra Paul, American actress
1965 – Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
1965 – Luis Alicea, baseball coach
1965 – Dean Haglund, Canadian actor
1966 – Martina McBride, American singer
1966 – Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor
1968 – Paavo Lotjonen, Finnish Cellist (Apocalyptica)
1970 – John Rennie, Former Zimbabwean cricketer
1970 – Andi Peters, British TV presenter
1971 – Monica Calhoun, American actress
1971 – Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer songwriter
1972 – Wil Wheaton, American actor
1973 – Stephen Dorff, American actor
1973 – Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1974 – Josh Radnor, American actor
1975 – Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
1975 – Lanka de Silva, Former Sri Lankan cricketer
1979 – Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
1979 – Ronald Murray, American basketball player
1980 – Ryan Braun, Canadian baseball player
1980 – Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
1980 – Rachel Miner, American actress
1981 – Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1 Driver
1981 – Andrés Madrid, Argentine footballer
1981 – Troy Perkins, American soccer player
1982 – Janez Aljancic, Slovenian footballer
1982 – Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
1982 – Allison Mack, American actress
1983 – Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian hockey player
1984 – Chad Billingsley, American baseball player
1987 – Sabra Johnson, American dancer
1991 – Miki Ishikawa, American actress

Deaths
238 – Pupienus, Roman Emperor
238 – Balbinus, Roman Emperor
1030 – Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)
1099 – Pope Urban II (b. 1042)
1108 – Philip I of France (b. 1052)
1507 – Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
1612 – Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
1644 – Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568)
1752 – Peter Warren, British admiral
1781 – Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
1792 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
1813 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
1833 – William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
1839 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1844 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
1856 – Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810)
1857 – Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774)
1887 – Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
1890 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
1900 – King Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
1913 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
1918 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
1934 – Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
1938 – Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
1950 – Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
1954 – Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
1964 – Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1970 – John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
1973 – Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
1973 – Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
1974 – Cass Elliot, American musician (b. 1941)
1974 – Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
1976 – Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
1979 – Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (b. 1898)
1979 – Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
1981 – Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)
1982 – Harold Sakata, Japanese-American actor (b. 1920)
1982 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist and inventor (b. 1889)
1983 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (b. 1900)
1983 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1983 – David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
1984 – Fred Waring, American band leader and inventor (b. 1900)
1987 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (b. 1894)
1990 – Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
1992 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
1994 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1995 – Les Elgart, American jazz musician and bandleader (b. 1917)
1996 – Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
1996 – Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
1996 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920)
1998 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (b. 1918)
2001 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
2001 – Wau Holland, German computer hacker (b. 1951)
2003 – Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
2004 – Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
2007 – Mike Reid, English comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2007 – Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
2007 – Tom Snyder, American television personality (b. 1936)
2007 – Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (b. 1921)
2008 – Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (b. 1989)

Holidays and observances
Faroe Islands – Ólavsøka: opening of the Løgting session.
National Anthem Day in Romania.
MnM Day

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Events
1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1586 – The first potato arrives in Britain.
1609 – Bermuda is first settled by survivors of the English Sea Venture en route to Virginia.
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley s British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force under Joseph Bonaparte.
1821 – José de San Martín declares independence for Peru from Spain.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
1868 – The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is passed, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
1914 – World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
1932 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the Bonus Army of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
1933 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.
1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately executed.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
1948 – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the Battle of London Airport.
1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kill 992.
1958 – Lord Jellicoe makes his maiden speech in the House of Lords.
1965 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1967 – parlimentry reforms make homosexuality legal in the United Kingdom
1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People s Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1996 – Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, is discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
1997 – Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
2005 – A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
2008 – The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for a second time in 80 years.

Births
1347 – Margherita of Durazzo, queen of Naples (d. 1412)
1659 – Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
1746 – Thomas Heyward, Jr., American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1809)
1750 – Fabre d Églantine French dramatist and politician, creator of the French Republican calendar (d. 1794)
1796 – Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician (d. 1859)
1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
1815 – Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
1844 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
1857 – Ballington Booth, co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
1860 – Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
1860 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
1863 – Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
1866 – Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
1867 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)
1872 – Albert Sarraut, French politician (d. 1962)
1874 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (d. 1945)
1879 – Lucy Burns, American suffragist (d. 1966)
1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
1891 – Ron Oxenham, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1939)
1896 – Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
1898 – Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
1900 – Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (d. 1965)
1901 – Rudy Vallee, American entertainer (d. 1986)
1901 – Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1902 – Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
1909 – Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (d. 1957)
1914 – Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
1915 – Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1916 – David Brown, American film producer
1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born undersea explorer
1924 – C.T. Vivian, American 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist
1925 – Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1926 – Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
1927 – John Ashbery, American poet
1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1930 – Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
1930 – Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (d. 1998)
1930 – Ramsey Withers, Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada
1931 – Johnny Martin, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1992)
1933 – Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1934 – Jacques d Amboise, American choreographer
1935 – Simon Dee, British television broadcaster
1936 – Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
1936 – Garfield Sobers, Barbadian West Indies cricketer
1937 – Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
1938 – Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
1938 – Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician and Former Prime Minister of Thailand
1938 – Luis Aragonés, Spanish football manager
1940 – Philip Proctor, American comedian
1941 – Susan Roces, Filipino actress
1941 – Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
1942 – Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
1943 – Mike Bloomfield, American musician (d. 1981)
1943 – Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
1943 – Richard Wright, English musician (Pink Floyd) (d. 2008)
1945 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist (Garfield)
1946 – Jonathan Edwards, American singer and songwriter
1946 – Linda Kelsey, American actress
1946 – Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist
1948 – Gerald Casale, american musician and director (founding member of Devo)
1948 – Georgia Engel, American actress
1948 – Sally Struthers, American actress
1949 – Steve Peregrin Took, English singer (d. 1980)
1949 – Vida Blue, American baseball player
1949 – Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
1949 – Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and film producer
1950 – Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet
1951 – Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
1951 – Doug Collins, American basketball player and head coach
1951 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
1952 – Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
1952 – Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
1954 – Bruce Abbott, American actor
1954 – Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
1954 – Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
1954 – Steve Morse, American guitarist
1954 – Mikey Sheehy, Gaelic footballer
1955 – Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier
1958 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and activist (d. 1981)
1958 – Michael Hitchcock, American actor
1960 – Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian film director
1960 – Yoichi Takahashi, Japanese mangaka of Captain Tsubasa and Hungry Heart Wild Striker
1961 – Yannick Dalmas, French race car driver
1961 – Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter
1962 – Rachel Sweet, American singer
1964 – Lori Loughlin, American actress
1965 – Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
1965 – Delfeayo Marsalis, American jazz musician
1966 – Shikao Suga, Japanese singer/songwriter
1969 – Garth Snow, American ice hockey goaltender
1969 – Alexis Arquette, American actor
1969 – Dana White, UFC President
1970 – Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)
1970 – Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
1970 – Paul Strang, Former Zimbabwian cricketer
1971 – Stephen Lynch, American musician
1971 – Annie Perreault, Canadian short-track speed skater
1972 – Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
1972 – Ed Templeton, American skateboarder
1972 – Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress
1973 – Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Marc Dupré, Quebec humorist and singer
1974 – Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
1975 – Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer
1976 – Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
1977 – Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
1977 – Aki Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
1978 – Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer/songwriter
1979 – Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 – Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
1979 – Henrik Hansen, Danish footballer
1980 – Stephen Christian, American singer (Anberlin)
1981 – Michael Carrick, English footballer
1981 – Billy Aaron Brown, American actor
1981 – Jo In Sung, South Korean actor
1982 – Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
1982 – Tom Pelphrey, American actor
1984 – DeMeco Ryans, American football player
1984 – Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
1985 – Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
1986 – Alexandra Chando, American actress
1988 – Ayla Brown, American singer
1988 – Casper Johansen, Danish footballer
1990 – Shana Swash, English actress
1990 – Soulja Boy Tell Em, American rapper
1993 – Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress

Deaths
450 – Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)
1057 – Pope Victor II
1128 – William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
1230 – Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
1285 – Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia
1527 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador
1540 – Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1495)
1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
1667 – Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)
1675 – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
1685 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
1718 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
1741 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
1750 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
1762 – George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
1794 – Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767)
1818 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
1835 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
1842 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
1849 – King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
1869 – Jan Evangelista Purkyne, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
1878 – George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803)
1930 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1934 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
1934 – Louis Tancred, Former South African cricketer (b. 1876)
1942 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
1957 – Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
1965 – Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
1967 – Karl W. Richter, Lieutenant, USAF, American aviator (b. 1942)
1968 – Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1969 – Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882)
1971 – Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1971 – Charles E. Pont, American artist (b. 1898)
1972 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1972 – Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
1979 – Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1981 – Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (b. 1935)
1982 – Keith Green, American gospel singer and pianist (b. 1953)
1990 – Jill Esmond, British actress (b. 1908)
1996 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and educator (b. 1908)
1997 – Seni Pramoj, Thai politician (b. 1905)
1998 – Lenny McLean, English bareknuckle fighter (b. 1949)
1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2002 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
2003 – Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
2004 – Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 – Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 – Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
2004 – Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
2006 – David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
2007 – Jim LeRoy, Airshow pilot (b. 1961)
2007 – Karl Gotch, Belgian professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2008 – Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress, murdered (b. 1977)

Holidays and observances
Faroe Islands – Ólavsøka Eve
Peru – Independence Day

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Events
1214 – Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England.
1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier s ship reached Japan.
1663 – The British Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
1689 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of Killiecrankie ends.
1694 – A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.
1720 – The second important victory of the Russian Navy – the Battle of Grengam.
1778 – American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant – British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
1789 – The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (later renamed Department of State).
1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution. (See 9 Thermidor.)
1862 – Sailing from San Francisco to Panama, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico, killing 231.
1865 – Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
1866 – The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time.
1880 – Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand – In a pyrrhic victory, Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
1914 – Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
1917 – The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1921 – Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
1928 – Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July.
1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
1941 – Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China.
1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1953 – Korean War ends: The United States, People s Republic of China, and North Korea, sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
1955 – The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends (started on May 9, 1945).
1964 – Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
1972 – The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.
1974 – Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon: obstruction of justice.
1976 – Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
1981 – British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event, with massive viewer numbers earned for the show.
1983 – Black July: 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo were massacred by the Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
1987 – First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreckage begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.
1990 – The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day was celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence was transferred to June 3.
1990 – The Jamaat al Muslimeen stage a coup d état attempt in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying Parliament and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet, as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days.
1995 – In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated.
1996 – Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. Alice Hawthorne was killed, and a cameraman suffered a heart attack fleeing the scene. 111 injured.
1997 – Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
2005 – STS-114: NASA grounds the Space shuttle, pending an investigation of the external tank s continued foam-shedding problem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
2006 – The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
2007 – Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there were no survivors. This was the first known incidence of two news helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.

Births
1452 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)
1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
1733 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
1740 – Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
1752 – Samuel Smith, American politician
1768 – Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
1773 – Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844)
1777 – Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (d. 1844)
1777 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer and soldier (d. 1853)
1781 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
1784 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
1812 – Thomas Clingman, American Confederate general (d. 1897)
1824 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (d. 1895)
1833 – Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)
1835 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
1848 – Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
1853 – Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
1857 – José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican politician (d. 1921)
1866 – António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (d. 1929)
1867 – Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
1870 – Hilaire Belloc, English writer (d. 1953)
1877 – Erno Dohnányi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
1879 – Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
1881 – Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1882 – Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
1886 – Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
1889 – Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1972)
1896 – Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
1903 – Nikolai Cherkasov, Russian actor (d. 1966)
1903 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
1905 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)
1906 – Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist (d. 1999)
1906 – Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (d. 2000)
1908 – Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)
1910 – Julien Gracq, French writer (d. 2007)
1911 – Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist (d. 1981)
1913 – Gérard Côté, Quebec marathon runner (d. 1993)
1913 – George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (d. 2000)
1915 – Mario Del Monaco, Italian singer (d. 1982)
1915 – Josef Priller, German fighter pilot (d. 1961)
1916 – Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic and novelist (d. 2007)
1916 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (d. 1986)
1917 – Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970)
1918 – Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
1921 – Émile Genest, Quebec actor (d. 2003)
1922 – Norman Lear, American television writer and producer
1922 – Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (d. 1986)
1923 – Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese Kyokushin founder (d. 1994)
1924 – Vincent Canby, American film critic (d. 2000)
1927 – Sat Mahajan, Indian politician
1928 – Karloff Lagarde, Mexican lucha libre wrestler (d. 2007)
1929 – Jack Higgins, British novelist
1930 – Shirley Williams, British politician
1931 – Jerry Van Dyke, American actor
1931 – Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician
1933 – Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (d. 1995)
1933 – Nick Reynolds, American folk singer
1935 – Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
1936 – J. Robert Hooper, American politician
1937 – Don Galloway, American actor
1938 – Isabelle Aubret, French singer
1938 – Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator (d. 2008)
1939 – Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet
1940 – Pina Bausch, German dancer
1942 – Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
1942 – John Pleshette, American actor
1942 – Édith Butler, Canadian singer and songwriter
1944 – Tony Capstick, English comedian (d. 2003)
1944 – Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
1944 – Bobbie Gentry, American singer and songwriter
1946 – Rade Šerbedžija, Croatian actor
1947 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (d. 2008)
1948 – Betty Thomas, American actor and film director
1948 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
1949 – André Dupont, Quebec ice hockey player
1949 – Maureen McGovern, American singer
1950 – Simon Jones, English actor
1952 – Hannu-Pekka Hänninen, Finnish sports commentator
1953 – Yahoo Serious, Australian comedian
1954 – G. S. Bali, Indian politician
1954 – Philippe Alliot, French racecar driver
1955 – Cat Bauer, American novelist
1955 – Allan Border, Australian cricketer
1956 – Carol Leifer, American actress
1957 – Bill Engvall, American comedian
1957 – Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler
1958 – Christopher Dean, English figure skater
1959 – Hugh Green, American football player
1959 – Joe DeSa, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1962 – Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (d. 2005)
1963 – Karrin Allyson, American Jazz musician & songstress
1963 – Donnie Yen, Hong Kong film actor
1964 – Rex Brown, American musician (Pantera)
1965 – José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
1967 – Juliana Hatfield, American musician
1967 – Sasha Mitchell, American actor
1967 – Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
1967 – Craig Wolanin, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Neil Smith, Former England cricketer
1968 – Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
1968 – Tom Goodwin, American baseball player
1968 – Julian McMahon, Australian actor
1968 – Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian Formula One driver
1969 – Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress
1969 – Triple H, American professional wrestler
1969 – Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
1970 – Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Danish actor
1972 – Jill Arrington, American sports reporter
1972 – Takako Fuji, Japanese actress
1972 – Maya Rudolph, American actress and comedian
1972 – Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space
1973 – Abe Cunningham, American musician (Deftones)
1973 – Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league footballer
1973 – Erik Nijs, Belgian long jumper
1974 – Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer
1974 – Pete Yorn, American musician
1975 – Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
1975 – Fred Mascherino, American musician
1975 – Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
1975 – Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
1976 – Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
1977 – Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Irish actor
1977 – Foo Swee Chin, Singaporean comic book artist
1978 – Diarmuid O Sullivan, Cork Hurler
1979 – Shannon Moore, American wrestler
1979 – Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
1980 – Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
1980 – Allan Davis, Australian cyclist
1981 – Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player
1981 – Collins Obuya, Kenyan cricketer
1983 – Alsou, Russian pop-star and actress
1983 – Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
1985 – Benedita Pereira, Portuguese actress
1985 – Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
1986 – Courtney Kupets, American gymnast
1986 – Ryan Griffen, Australian rules footballer
1988 – Adam Biddle, Australian footballer
1989 – Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
1990 – Cheyenne Kimball, American musician
1990 – Nick Hogan, American reality TV star
1990 – Indiana Evans, Australian actress
1994 – Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor
1994 – Princess Mafalda-Ceceilia of Bulgaria
2000 – Kali Rodriguez, American actress

Deaths
1101 – Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (b. 1074)
1276 – King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
1365 – Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (b. 1339)
1656 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
1675 – Henri de la Tour d Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (b. 1611)
1759 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698)
1770 – Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
1841 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author (b. 1814)
1844 – John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)
1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1876 – Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American religious leader (b. 1811)
1883 – Montgomery Blair, American politician (b. 1813)
1917 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1841)
1924 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist (b. 1866)
1931 – Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
1934 – Hubert Lyautey, Frency army general and marshal (b. 1854)
1941 – Alfred Henry O Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
1946 – Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
1948 – Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (b. 1898)
1958 – Claire Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
1962 – Richard Aldington, English poet (b. 1892)
1962 – James H. Dutch Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1895)
1965 – Henri Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b. 1901)
1968 – Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882)
1970 – António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese statesman (b. 1889)
1971 – Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
1978 – Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (b. 1907)
1980 – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
1981 – William Wyler, French-born film director (b. 1902)
1984 – James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)
1985 – Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (b. 1889)
1987 – Travis Jackson, baseball player (b. 1903)
1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
1990 – Bobby Day, American singer (b. 1928)
1992 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911)
1993 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
1994 – Kevin Carter, Photographer (b. 1960)
1995 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1907)
1998 – Binnie Barnes, British actress (b. 1903)
1999 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
1999 – Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1915)
2000 – Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (b. 1929)
2001 – Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
2001 – Rhonda Singh, professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2003 – Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
2003 – Bob Hope, English-born entertainer (b. 1903)
2005 – Swami Shantanand, Mahasamadhi Day, Indian Saint, Philosopher (b. 1934)
2005 – Marten Toonder, Dutch comic writer (b. 1912)
2006 – Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (b. 1925)
2007 – Lucky Grills, Australian actor (b. 1928)
2008 – Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926)
2008 – Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
2008 – Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican Businessman (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances
Puerto Rico – José Celso Barbosa Day.
Finland – National Sleepy Head Day
Roman Catholicism
Aurelius and Natalia and companions of the Martyrs of Córdoba
Saint Pantaleon
Seven Sleepers, Septinu Guletaju Diena in Latvia

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Events
657 – Battle of Siffin.
811 – Battle of Pliska; Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I is slain, his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded.
920 – Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
1139 – Battle of Ourique: The independence of Portugal from the Kingdom of León declared after the Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques. He then becomes Afonso I, King of Portugal, after calling the first assembly of the estates-general of Portugal at Lamego, where he is given the Crown from the Bishop of Bragança, to confirm the independence.
1309 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1469 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor – Pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV.
1533 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Inca emperor Atahualpa is executed in Cajamarca by the garrote by Spanish invaders known as Conquistadors.
1581 – Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.
1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
1775 – The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department was established by the Second Continental Congress.
1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world s first public railway, opens in south London.
1822 – José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
1847 – Liberia declares independence.
1861 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
1863 – American Civil War: Morgan s Raid ends – At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
1878 – In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself Black Bart makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner s Parsifal at Bayreuth.
1891 – France annexes Tahiti.
1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1914 – Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
1934 – Assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.
1936 – The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
1937 – End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
1941 – World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
1944 – World War II: Soviet army enters Lviv, major city of western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jewish survivors left, out of 160,000 Jews in Lviv prior to Nazi occupation.
1944 – The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.
1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
1945 – The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
1945 – The US Navy cruiser Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
1946 – Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport
1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
1948 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
1952 – King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.
1953 – Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
1956 – Following the World Bank s decline to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
1963 – Syncom 2, the world s first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
1963 – Earthquake in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) – 1100 dead
1963 – The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
1965 – Full independence was granted to the Maldives.
1966 – Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
1968 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
1971 – Apollo Program: Apollo 15 Mission – Launch of Apollo 15.
1974 – Greek Prime Minister Constantin Caramanlis forms the country s first civil government after seven years of military rule.
1975 – Formation of a military triumvirate in Portugal.
1977 – The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
1994 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia.

Births
2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2005 – Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
2005 – Samir Geagea, the Lebanese Forces (LF) leader, is released after spending 11 years in a solitary confinement. His release came after the end of the Syrian occupation to Lebanon.

Deaths
1030 – Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)
1678 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
1782 – John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837)
1791 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer (d. 1844)
1802 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
1829 – Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian statesman, Nobel Laureate (d. 1912)
1846 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
1855 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
1856 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1950)
1858 – Tom Garrett, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1943)
1865 – Philipp Scheidemann, First Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (d. 1939)
1874 – Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (d. 1951)
1875 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
1875 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
1880 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
1885 – André Maurois, French author (d. 1967)
1886 – Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1888 – Reginald Hands, Former South African cricketer (d. 1918)
1892 – Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1966)
1894 – Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
1895 – Jane Bunford, Britain s tallest-ever person (d. 1922)
1895 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
1896 – Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933)
1897 – Paul Gallico, American author (d. 1976)
1903 – Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963)
1906 – Irena Illakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (d. 1943)
1909 – Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
1909 – Vivian Vance, American actress (d. 1979)
1914 – Erskine Hawkins, American musician and bandleader (d. 1993)
1914 – Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1918 – Marjorie Lord, American actress
1919 – Virginia Gilmore, American actress (d. 1986)
1920 – Bob Waterfield, American football player (d. 1983)
1921 – Jean Shepherd, American writer (d. 1999)
1922 – Blake Edwards, American film director
1922 – Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
1923 – Jan Berenstain, American author
1923 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1925 – Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (d. 2000)
1926 – James Best, American actor
1926 – Ana María Matute, Spanish author
1927 – Gulabrai Ramchand, Former Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
1928 – Don Beauman, British racing driver (d. 1955)
1928 – Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of the Italian Republic
1928 – Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (d. 1980)
1928 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
1928 – Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician
1929 – Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician
1929 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-born French pianist
1931 – Takashi Ono, Japanese gymnast
1931 – Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager and former player (d. 2006)
1936 – Mary Millar, English actress (d. 1998)
1938 – Darlene Love, American singer
1939 – John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
1939 – Bob Lilly, American football player
1940 – Dobie Gray, American singer
1940 – Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969)
1940 – Bobby Rousseau, Quebec ice hockey player
1940 – Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer
1941 – Bobby Hebb, American musician
1941 – Brenton Wood, American singer-songwriter
1942 – Vladimír Meciar, Slovak prime minister
1942 – Teddy Pilette, Belgian racing driver
1943 – Peter Hyams, American film director
1943 – Mick Jagger, English singer (The Rolling Stones)
1944 – Kiel Martin, American actor (d. 1990)
1945 – Helen Mirren, English actress
1949 – Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
1949 – Thaksin Shinawatra, ex-Prime Minister of Thailand
1950 – Susan George, English actress
1950 – Nelinho, Brazilian footballer
1950 – Rich Vogler, American race car driver (d. 1990)
1951 – Rick Martin, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 – Robert Phillips, classical guitarist
1954 – Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (d. 1994)
1956 – Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater
1956 – Tommy Rich, American professional wrestler
1957 – Nana Visitor, American actress
1957 – Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor
1957 – Hart Hanson, American television writer and producer
1958 – Angela Hewitt, Canadian classical pianist
1959 – Rick Bragg, American writer
1959 – Kevin Spacey, American actor
1959 – Michael Ross, American serial killer (d. 2005)
1961 – Gary Cherone, American musician (Extreme)
1961 – Andy Connell, English musician (Swing Out Sister, A Certain Ratio)
1961 – Keiko Matsui, Japanese musician and composer
1961 – Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer
1964 – Sandra Bullock, American actress
1964 – Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer
1964 – Danny Woodburn, American actor
1965 – Jeremy Piven, American actor
1965 – Jim Lindberg, American musician (Pennywise)
1967 – Anthony Durante, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1967 – Tim Schafer, American computer game designer
1968 – Olivia Williams, English actress
1969 – Greg Colbrunn, American baseball player
1970 – Joan Wasser, American singer and musician
1971 – Khaled Mahmud, Former Bangladeshi cricketer
1973 – Kate Beckinsale, British actress
1973 – Lenka Šarounová, Czech astronomer
1974 – Dean Sturridge, English Footballer
1974 – Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
1974 – Dan Konopka, American musician (OK Go)
1975 – Joe Smith, American basketball player
1976 – Brad Wilkins, American architect
1977 – Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
1977 – Rebecca St. James, Australian-born singer
1979 – Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Mageina Tovah, American actress
1979 – Erik Westrum, American ice hockey player
1980 – Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41)
1980 – Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor
1981 – Abe Forsythe, Australian actor/director
1982 – Chez Starbuck, American actor
1983 – Delonte West, American basketball player
1983 – Roderick Strong, American professional wrestler
1984 – Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
1985 – Gaël Clichy, French footballer
1985 – Audrey De Montigny, Quebec singer
1987 – Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
1993 – Taylor Momsen, American actress

Holidays and observances
796 – Offa, King of Mercia
811 – Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor
1380 – Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
1471 – Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
1592 – Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
1611 – Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1680 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b. 1647)
1684 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
1712 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (b. 1631)
1723 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
1801 – Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria (b. 1756)
1863 – Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793)
1867 – King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
1919 – Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
1925 – Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b. 1848)
1925 – William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860)
1925 – Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
1932 – Frederick S. Duesenberg automotive pioneer (b. 1876)
1935 – Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
1941 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
1942 – Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
1952 – Eva Perón, Argentine First Lady (b. 1919)
1953 – Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
1960 – Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (b. 1879)
1960 – Cedric Gibbons, American art director (b. 1893)
1964 – Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician and race driver (b. 1884)
1969 – Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
1970 – Robert Taschereau, French-Canadian jurist (b. 1896)
1971 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (b. 1923)
1980 – Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
1984 – George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901)
1984 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
1986 – Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891)
1988 – Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)
1990 – Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1952)
1992 – Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
1993 – Matthew Ridgeway, American army general (b. 1895)
1994 – Christy Henrich, American gymnast (b. 1972)
1995 – Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1917)
1995 – Raymond Mailloux, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
1995 – George W. Romney, American businessman and politician (b. 1907)
2000 – John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
2001 – Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
2001 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
2005 – Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
2005 – Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
2005 – Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
2005 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2007 – Lars Forssell, Swedish writer (b. 1928)
2007 – John Normington, English actor (b. 1937)
2007 – Skip Prosser, American basketball coach (b. 1950)

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Events
285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
1139 – Battle of Ourique: the independence of Portugal from the Kingdom of León and Castile is declared after the battle against the Almoravids.
1261 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali.
1538 – The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
1547 – Henry II of France is crowned.
1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned the first king of Great Britain.
1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
1722 – The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.
1758 – Seven Years War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
1759 – French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
1795 – The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
1799 – At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Lundy s Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall s British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown s Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1837 – The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
1853 – Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as Robin Hood of El Dorado, is killed.
1861 – American Civil War: the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the U.S. Congress stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
1866 – The U.S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army (commonly called 5-star general). Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
1868 – Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
1869 – The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
1897 – Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
1898 – The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico (The land invasion, proper, began that day: Sea-based bombardment and shelling of the capital city of San Juan had been occurring since May 1898).
1907 – Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.
1917 – Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a temporary measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1920 – Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
1940 – General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1944 – World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
1946 – Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll.
1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
1952 – The U.S. non-incorporated colonial territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution of local-limited powers, approved by the United States Congress in contravention of then-current International Law.
1956 – 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
1958 – The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
1959 – SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
1961 – In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the Vietnamization of the war.
1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
1978 – The Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs.
1978 – Louise Brown, the world s first test tube baby is born.
1983 – Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
1984 – Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
1993 – The St James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.
1995 – A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1997 – K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India s 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called untouchable— to hold this office.
2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India s first woman president

Births
1016 – Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)
1109 – Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
1336 – Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
1404 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
1421 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
1562 – Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1653 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat (d. 1728)
1658 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
1750 – Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
1797 – Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889)
1799 – David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
1839 – Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
1844 – Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
1848 – Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
1860 – Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
1867 – Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918)
1867 – Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
1870 – Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1882 – George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)
1883 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)
1886 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
1894 – Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
1894 – Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin (d. 1918)
1895 – Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (d. 1977)
1896 – Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
1901 – Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1902 – Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)
1905 – Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1994)
1905 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
1907 – Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
1908 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
1908 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
1908 – Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)
1914 – Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (d. 1994)
1916 – Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989)
1917 – Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990)
1918 – Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
1920 – Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994)
1920 – Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
1923 – Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
1923 – Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
1924 – Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984)
1924 – Scotch Taylor, Former South African cricketer (d. 2004)
1925 – Jerry Paris, American actor (d. 1986)
1926 – Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
1927 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
1927 – Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
1928 – Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
1928 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
1929 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995)
1930 – Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
1930 – Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
1930 – Annie Ross, British jazz singer
1930 – Murray Chapple, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
1934 – Don Ellis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1978)
1934 – Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
1935 – Barbara Harris, American actress
1935 – Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1935 – Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
1935 – Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms merchant
1936 – Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver
1936 – Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect
1937 – Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
1941 – Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
1941 – Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
1942 – Bruce Woodley, Australian musician (The Seekers)
1943 – Jim McCarty, English musician (The Yardbirds)
1946 – Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer (I Threes)
1946 – John Gibson, American media host
1951 – Verdine White, American musician (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1954 – Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
1955 – Iman Abdulmajid, Somali model
1955 – Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
1958 – Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1959 – Anatoly Onoprienko, a Ukrainian serial Killer
1960 – Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
1961 – Bobbie Eakes, American actress
1961 – Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress
1963 – Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician
1963 – Julian Hodgson, English chess player
1965 – Illeana Douglas, American actress
1966 – Maureen Herman, American bassist
1966 – Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
1966 – Christine C. Quinn, American politician
1967 – Matt LeBlanc, American actor
1967 – Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
1967 – Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
1968 – Rudi Bryson, Former South African cricketer
1969 – Jon Barry, American basketball player
1971 – Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter
1971 – Billy Wagner, American baseball player
1973 – Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth)
1973 – David Denman, American actor
1973 – Kevin Phillips, English footballer
1973 – Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer
1973 – Michael C. Williams, American actor
1974 – Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
1974 – Jay R. Ferguson, American actor
1975 – Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
1976 – Tera Patrick, American pornographic actress
1976 – Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet
1976 – Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 – Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
1978 – Louise Brown, World s first test tube baby
1978 – Gerard Warren, American football player
1979 – Amy Adams, American singer
1979 – Allister Carter, English professional snooker player
1980 – Diam s, French rapper
1980 – Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
1980 – Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver
1981 – Conor Casey, American soccer player
1981 – Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
1982 – Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
1982 – Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer
1983 – Nenad Krstic, Serbian basketball player
1984 – Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
1985 – James Lafferty, American actor
1985 – Jasmine Lennard, English model
1985 – Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian race car driver
1987 – Michael Welch, American actor
1988 – Heather Marks, Canadian model
1988 – Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
1989 – Noel Callahan, Canadian actor

Deaths
306 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (b. 250)
1409 – King Martin I of Sicily
1471 – Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
1492 – Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
1616 – Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
1643 – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
1676 – François Hédelin, abbé d Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
1681 – Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1790 – Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
1790 – William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 – Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
1794 – André Chénier, French writer (b. 1762)
1826 – Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
1842 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 – Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
1853 – Joaquin Murieta, California outlaw
1861 – Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
1865 – James Barry, military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor
1887 – John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
1934 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
1934 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1892)
1934 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
1952 – Herbert Murrill, English composer (b. 1909)
1962 – Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)
1963 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
1971 – Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)
1973 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1980 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
1982 – Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892)
1984 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
1986 – Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)
1988 – Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
1989 – Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
1992 – Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1995 – Charlie Rich, American rock/soul/country musician (b. 1932)
1996 – Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (b. 1914)
1997 – Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)
1998 – Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
2002 – Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
2003 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
2003 – Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
2003 – John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
2005 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 – Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
2007 – Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (b. 1952)
2007 – Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (b. 1979)
2008 – Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his Last Lecture (b. 1960)
2008 – Tracy Hall, American inventor (b. 1919)
2008 – Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1955)

Holidays and observances
Inca festival in honor of the thunder god Ilyap a
Roman festivals – Furinalia
Galicia (Spain) – National Day (Día da Pátria Galega).
Puerto Rico – Constitution Day (1952). Formerly Occupation Day (1898).
Ebernoe Horn Fair in Sussex, southern England

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Events
1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer.
1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of the Francis I of France.
1567 – Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI.
1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.
1715 – A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
1814 – War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown s American invaders.
1823 – Slavery is abolished in Chile.
1832 – Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming s South Pass.
1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of 47 Parade.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Anderson Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1866 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. State to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas.
1915 – The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 845 lives.
1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1924 – The World Chess Federation FIDE is founded in Paris.
1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
1931 – A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
1935 – The world s first children s railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
1935 – The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called Scottsboro Boys.
1938 – First ascent of the Eiger north face.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian airplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1948 – Looney Tunes character Marvin the Martian makes his first appearance in the cartoon Haredevil Hare.
1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
1956 – At New York City s Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together. They began performing together on July 25, 1946.
1956 – Khartoum University College is awarded university status becoming the University of Khartoum.
1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a Kitchen Debate.
1965 – Vietnam War: four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of antiaircraft missiles in the first such attack against American aircraft in the war. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage.
1966 – Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
1967 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1972 – Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
1974 – Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1974 – After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the Greek military junta collapses and democracy is restored.
1977 – End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
1982 – Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the Pine Tar Incident.
1990 – Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
1998 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2001 – Bandaranaike Airport attack was carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11 Aircrafts (mostly military) and damaged 15, there were no civilian casualities. This incident slowed down Sri Lankan economy.
2002 – James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
2005 – Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
2007 – Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya.

Births
1660 – Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)
1725 – John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
1757 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)
1783 – Simón Bolívar, South American liberator (d. 1830)
1786 – Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1794 – Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)
1802 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (d. 1870)
1803 – Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1856)
1821 – William Poole, American gang member (New York City s Bowery Boys) (d. 1855)
1826 – Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)
1851 – Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1853 – William Gillette, American actor and author (d. 1937)
1856 – Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1857 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1860 – Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
1864 – Frank Wedekind, German writer (d. 1918)
1867 – Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (d. 1940)
1867 – Fred Tate, England cricketer (d. 1943)
1867 – Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (d. 1908)
1874 – Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1917)
1877 – Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1954)
1878 – Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (d. 1957)
1880 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (d. 1959)
1880 – Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1886 – Jun ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese novelist (d. 1965)
1888 – Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
1895 – Robert Graves, English author (d. 1985)
1897 – Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937)
1899 – Chief Dan George, Meti actor (d. 1981)
1900 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (d. 1948)
1904 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991)
1908 – Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (d. 1985)
1910 – Harry Horner, American art director (d. 1994)
1914 – Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman, philanthropist and theatrical impresario (d. 2007)
1915 – Enrique Fernando, Philippino jurist (d. 2004)
1916 – John D. MacDonald, American novelist, (d. 1986)
1917 – Robert Farnon, Canadian-born conductor, composer, and arranger (d. 2005)
1917 – Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer (d. 1999)
1918 – Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist
1919 – Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice (d. 1999)
1919 – Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss cyclist
1920 – Bella Abzug, U.S. Congresswoman from New York (d. 1998)
1921 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)
1922 – Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer
1929 – Alfred Binns, West Indian cricketer
1931 – Ermanno Olmi, Italian director
1931 – Éric Tabarly, French sailor (d. 1998)
1933 – Doug Sanders, American golfer
1933 – John Aniston, American actor; father of Jennifer Aniston
1934 – Sante Kimes, American convicted con artist and murderess
1935 – Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist
1935 – Derek Varnals, South African cricketer
1936 – Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian
1936 – Mark Goddard, American actor
1937 – Manoj Kumar, Indian actor
1938 – Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist
1938 – John Sparling, New Zealand cricketer
1940 – Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
1940 – Dan Hedaya, American actor
1942 – Chris Sarandon, American actor
1945 – Azim Premji, Indian businessman
1947 – Zaheer Abbas, Pakistani cricketer
1947 – Robert Hays, American actor
1947 – Peter Serkin, American pianist
1949 – Yves Duteil, French singer and songwriter
1949 – Michael Richards, American comedian
1951 – Lynda Carter, American actress
1951 – Chris Smith, British politician
1952 – Gus Van Sant, American film director
1953 – Claire McCaskill, American politician, junior senator from Missouri
1956 – Charles Crist, Governor of Florida
1956 – Pat Finn, American game show host and producer
1957 – Pam Tillis, American singer
1961 – Kerry Dixon, English footballer
1962 – Johnny O Connell, American race car driver
1963 – Paul Geary, American musician (Extreme)
1963 – Julie Krone, American jockey
1963 – Karl Malone, American basketball player
1964 – Barry Bonds, American baseball player
1964 – Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author
1965 – Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player
1965 – Kadeem Hardison, American actor
1965 – Doug Liman, American film director
1966 – Martin Keown, English footballer
1968 – Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress
1968 – Colleen Doran, American comic book writer and artist
1968 – Malcolm Ingram, Canadian director
1968 – Laura Leighton, American actress
1969 – Rick Fox, Bahamian basketball player
1969 – Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
1970 – Stephanie Adams, American model and author
1971 – Dino Baggio, Italian footballer
1971 – John Partridge, English singer
1972 – Kaio Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
1972 – Rev. Jen Miller, American performance artist
1975 – Jamie Langenbrunner, American ice hockey player
1975 – Eric Szmanda, American actor
1975 – Torrie Wilson, American wrestler
1976 – Rafer Alston, American basketball player
1976 – Nate Bump, American baseball player
1976 – Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese Formula One driver
1977 – Danny Dyer, English actor and television presenter
1977 – Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player
1979 – Rose Byrne, Australian actress
1979 – Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress
1979 – Stat Quo, American rapper
1979 – Valerio Scassellati, Italian racing driver
1979 – Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, French tennis player
1979 – José Valverde, American baseball player
1980 – Gauge, American pornographic actress
1980 – Wilfred Bungei, Kenyan middle-distance runner
1981 – Summer Glau, American actress
1982 – Elise Crombez, Belgian model
1982 – Thiago Medeiros, Brazilian racing driver
1982 – Anna Paquin, Canadian-born New Zealand actress
1983 – Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
1984 – John Dhani Lennevald, Swedish singer (A-Teens)
1985 – Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player
1985 – Teagan Presley, American pornographic actress
1986 – Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater
1986 – Megan Park, Canadian actress
1987 – Mara Wilson, American actress
1988 – Ricky Petterd, Australian rules footballer
1988 – Luke Mitchell, Scottish murderer
1990 – Daveigh Chase, American actress
1998 – Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer; daughter of Steve Irwin

Deaths
1115 – Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1129 – Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan (b. 1053)
1240 – Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
1568 – Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)
1594 – John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)
1739 – Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1686)
1768 – Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
1862 – Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)
1908 – Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. 1867)
1910 – Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
1927 – Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
1957 – Sacha Guitry, French actor, director, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1885)
1965 – Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
1966 – Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
1969 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)
1970 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
1974 – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1980 – Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
1980 – Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
1986 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1991 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1992 – Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)
1992 – Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900)
1993 – Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957)
1995 – Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (b. 1934)
1995 – George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908)
1996 – Alphonso Roberts, West Indian cricketer and politician (b. 1937)
1997 – William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1906)
1997 – Saw Maung, Burmese dictator (b. 1928)
2000 – Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (b. 1925)
2001 – Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931)
2005 – Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (b. 1912)
2007 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist (b. 1913)
2007 – Chaney Kley, American Actor (b. 1972)
2008 – Norman Dello Joio, American composer (b. 1913)

Holidays and observances
Ecuador – Simón Bolívar Day.
Utah – Pioneer Day (1847).
Ancient Latvia – Jekaupa Diena held.
In the United States, National Tequila Day is July 24.

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Events
1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1793 – The Prussians conquer Mayence.
1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the Typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1833 – Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
1840 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
1881 – The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world s oldest international sport federation, is founded.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1914 – Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia rejects those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of socialist and communist parties.
1940 – United States Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles s declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1942 – The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
1942 – World War II: Operation Edelweiss begins.
1945 – The post war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
1952 – Establishment of the European Coal and Steel community.
1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser – the real power behind the coup) in the overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt.
1956 – The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.
1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) is founded in Nicaragua.
1962 – Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
1967 – 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned).
1968 – Glenville Shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins that lasted for five days.
1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel.
1970 – Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur.
1972 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
1982 – The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
1983 – The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In the subsequent government-organised pogrom of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada.
1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
1986 – In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples.
1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
1995 – Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
1997 – Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
1999 – Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father.
1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan.
2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
2008 – Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member.

Births
645 – Yazid I, Sixth caliph of Islam (d. 683)
1301 – Duke Otto of Austria (d. 1339)
1339 – King Louis I of Naples (d. 1384)
1503 – Anna Jagello, Queen of the Romans (d. 1547)
1649 – Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
1705 – Francis Blomefield, English topographer (d. 1752)
1775 – Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
1777 – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
1796 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
1823 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian Catholic priest and archbishop (d. 1894)
1838 – Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (d. 1910)
1851 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
1856 – Lokmanya Tilak, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1920)
1864 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (d. 1903)
1865 – Max Heindel, Danish Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (d. 1919)
1884 – Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (d. 1950)
1885 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Perfumer (d. 1935)
1886 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish League of Nations official (d. 1978)
1886 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
1888 – Raymond Chandler, American-born author (d. 1959)
1892 – Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975)
1894 – Arthur Treacher, English character actor (d. 1975)
1895 – Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
1898 – Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977)
1898 – Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1987)
1899 – Gustav Heinemann, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1976)
1901 – Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (d. 1992)
1906 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1906 – Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (d. 1931)
1912 – Michael Wilding, English actor (d. 1979)
1913 – Michael Foot, English politician
1914 – Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (d. 1971)
1918 – Bueno de Mesquita Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1918 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1920 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (d. 1999)
1921 – Calvert DeForest, American actor (d. 2007)
1923 – Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (d. 1997)
1923 – Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (d. 1958)
1923 – Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (d. 2001)
1924 – Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (d. 2005)
1927 – Gérard Brach, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1928 – Hubert Selby Jr., American author (d. 2004)
1931 – Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori Queen (d. 2006)
1931 – Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter
1931 – Claude Fournier, French Canadian film director and screenwriter
1933 – Bert Convy, American game show host and performer (d. 1991)
1935 – Jim Hall, American race car driver and constructor (Chaparral Cars)
1935 – Hein Heinsen, Danish artist
1936 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1936 – Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1937 – Dave Webster, Led his football team to a National Championship in 1958
1938 – Juliet Anderson, American pornographic actress
1938 – Ronny Cox, American actor
1938 – Götz George, German actor
1938 – Charles Harrelson, American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson (d. 2007)
1938 – Bert Newton, Australian actor and television show host
1940 – Don Imus, American talk radio host
1941 – Richie Evans, 9 time NASCAR Modified Champion (died at Martinsville in 1985)
1942 – Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002)
1942 – Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian politician
1943 – Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
1943 – Tony Joe White, American singer and songwriter
1947 – Gardner Dozois, American author
1947 – David Essex, English singer
1947 – Torsten Palm, Swedish racing driver
1948 – John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
1948 – John Hall, American politician and former rock musician
1949 – Clive Rice, former South African cricketer
1950 – Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American judge
1950 – Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1950 – Alan Turner, Australian cricketer
1951 – Edie McClurg, American actress
1952 – Bill Nyrop, American ice hockey player (d. 1995)
1952 – Paul Hibbert, Australian cricketer
1953 – Graham Gooch, English cricketer
1957 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
1957 – Nick Galis, Greek basketball player
1959 – Nancy Savoca, American filmmaker
1960 – Al Perez, American professional wrestler
1961 – Martin Lee Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode)
1961 – Woody Harrelson, American actor
1961 – André Ducharme, Canadian (Québécois) humorist (Rock et Belles Oreilles) and author
1961 – Michael Durant, American Helicopter pilot, shot down and held captive in Mogadishu, Somalia
1962 – Eriq La Salle, American actor
1964 – Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist
1965 – Rob Dickinson, English musician
1965 – Slash, American guitarist (Guns N Roses)
1966 – Samantha Beckinsale, English actress
1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
1968 – Nick Menza, American musician, drummer
1968 – Gary Payton, American basketball player
1968 – Stephanie Seymour, American supermodel
1970 – Charisma Carpenter, American actress
1970 – Thea Dorn, German writer
1971 – Dalvin DeGrate, American singer
1971 – Alison Krauss, American singer and fiddler
1971 – Chris Michalek, American musician
1971 – Christopher Lee, Singaporean actor and model
1972 – Marlon Wayans, American actor
1972 – Floyd Reifer, West Indian cricketer
1973 – Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player
1973 – Omar Epps, American actor
1973 – Francis Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis)
1973 – Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern
1973 – Himesh Reshammiya, Indian Bollywood composer, singer and actor.
1974 – Terry Glenn, American football player
1974 – Maurice Greene, American athlete
1974 – Stephanie March, American actress
1974 – Sonny Siaki, Samoan-born professional wrestler
1974 – Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist
1974 – Kathryn Hahn, American actress
1975 – Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress
1975 – Surya Sivakumar, Tamil actor
1976 – Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
1976 – Jonathan Gallant, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
1977 – Neicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
1977 – Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player
1978 – Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer
1978 – Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer
1979 – Perro Aguayo, Jr., Mexican professional wrestler
1979 – Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1979 – Richard Sims, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 – Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny s Child)
1981 – Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41)
1981 – Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
1982 – Gerald Wallace, American basketball player
1983 – Andrew Eiden, American actor
1983 – Bec Hewitt, Australian actress
1983 – Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
1983 – David Strettle, English rugby player (Harlequins)
1984 – Brandon Roy, American professional basketball player
1984 – Matthew Murphy, English musician (The Wombats)
1985 – Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
1986 – Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
1986 – Nelson Philippe, French racing driver
1986 – Reece Ritchie, English actor
1988 – Pippa Bennett-Warner, English actress
1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
1996 – Rachel G. Fox, American actress

Deaths
1227 – Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (b. 1148)
1373 – Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
1403 – Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)
1531 – Louis de Brézé, seigneur d Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
1584 – John Day, English printer (b. 1522)
1692 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
1727 – Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
1757 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
1764 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703)
1773 – George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
1781 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1793 – Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721)
1833 – Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (b. 1777)
1853 – Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798)
1875 – Isaac Singer, American inventor and entrepreneur (b. 1811)
1878 – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)
1885 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
1916 – Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1920 – Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
1923 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
1924 – Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
1930 – Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (b. 1878)
1932 – Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
1942 – Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
1942 – Andy Ducat, Former England cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
1948 – D. W. Griffith, American film director (b. 1875)
1951 – Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
1951 – Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (b. 1884)
1955 – Cordell Hull, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
1966 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
1968 – Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
1971 – Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
1979 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (b. 1898)
1980 – Mollie Steimer, anarchist agitator and American political prisoner (b. 1897)
1980 – Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1980 – Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
1982 – Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
1983 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
1985 – Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
1989 – Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)
1990 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (b. 1899)
1993 – James R. Jordan, Sr., father of Michael Jordan (b. 1936)
1996 – Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (b. 1934)
1997 – Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
1999 – King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
2001 – Eudora Welty, American author (b. 1909)
2002 – Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
2002 – William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (b. 1933)
2002 – Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)
2003 – James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
2004 – Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2004 – Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
2004 – Piero Piccioni, Italian musician, conductor and composer (b. 1921)
2004 – Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
2005 – Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (b. 1946)
2006 – Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1927)
2007 – Tor Kamata, American/Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1937)
2007 – Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1933)
2007 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
2008 – Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances
Egypt – Revolution Day (1952)
Roman Empire – Neptunalia held in honor of Neptune
Rastafari movement – Celebration of the birthday of Haile Selassie

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Events
1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town.
1456 – Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade – John Hunyadi, Regent of Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of Ottoman Empire
1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany s brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
1499 – Battle of Dornach – the Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
1587 – Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio Cleveland after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleets under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca – British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
1916 – In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934 – Outside Chicago s Biograph Theatre, Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1937 – New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1942 – Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
1943 – Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
1946 – King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90.
1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1968 – Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the state school system
1976 – Japan completes it s last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed in Japan s imperial conquest of the country in the Second World War
1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
1992 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
2002 – Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas s military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians.
2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein s sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay s 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers. See 7 July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings

Births
1210 – Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)
1478 – King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1510 – Alessandro de Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
1535 – Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
1559 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
1621 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1683)
1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
1713 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
1733 – Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
1755 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839)
1784 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
1844 – William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
1848 – Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
1849 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
1863 – Alec Hearne, Former England cricketer (d. 1952)
1882 – Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
1887 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1888 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
1888 – Selman Waksman, Ukrainian/American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1889 – James Whale, English film director (d. 1957)
1890 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American Kennedy family matriarch (d. 1995)
1892 – Jack MacBryan, Former England cricketer and Olympic gold medallist (d. 1983)
1893 – Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1893 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
1898 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
1898 – Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
1905 – Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1908 – Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
1909 – Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
1913 – Licia Albanese, American opera singer
1913 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
1915 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. (d. 2000)
1916 – Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
1916 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
1921 – William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
1923 – Bob Dole, American politician
1923 – Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1923 – Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
1924 – Margaret Whiting, American singer
1928 – Orson Bean, American film actor
1929 – John Barber, British racing driver
1932 – Oscar De la Renta, Dominican/American fashion designer
1934 – Louise Fletcher, American actress
1935 – Tom Cartwright, Former England cricketer (d. 2007)
1936 – Tom Robbins, American author
1937 – Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1937 – John Price, Former England cricketer
1937 – Vasant Ranjane, Former Indian cricketer
1938 – Terence Stamp, English actor
1939 – Gila Almagor, Israeli actress
1940 – Judith Walzer Leavitt, American college professor
1940 – Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host
1941 – George Clinton, American musician
1941 – Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
1943 – Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas
1943 – Bobby Sherman, American singer and actor
1944 – Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes)
1944 – Rick Davies, British musician (Supertramp)
1944 – Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver
1944 – Sparky Lyle, American baseball player
1946 – Danny Glover, American actor
1946 – Mireille Mathieu, French singer
1946 – Paul Schrader, American film director and screenwriter
1946 – Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician (d. 2000)
1947 – Albert Brooks, American comedian
1947 – Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
1947 – Don Henley, American musician (Eagles)
1948 – Otto Waalkes, German comedian
1949 – Alan Menken, American composer
1949 – Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai and PM of UAE
1949 – Lasse Virén, Finnish athlete
1950 – S. E. Hinton, American novelist
1951 – J. V. Cain, American football player (d. 1979)
1953 – Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist
1953 – Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
1954 – Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor
1954 – Lonette McKee, American actress
1954 – Al Di Meola, American guitarist
1955 – Willem Dafoe, American actor
1957 – Dave Stieb, American baseball player
1958 – David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1984)
1958 – Tatsunori Hara, Japanese professional-baseball player and coach
1960 – Jon Oliva, American musician (Savatage)
1961 – Calvin Fish, English racing driver
1961 – Keith Sweat, American singer
1962 – Steve Albini, American writer, recording engineer and musician (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac)
1962 – Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer
1963 – Emilio Butragueno, Spanish footballer
1963 – Rob Estes, American actor
1963 – Emily Saliers, American singer (Indigo Girls)
1964 – Rafael Addison, American basketball player
1964 – Adam Godley, British actor
1964 – John Leguizamo, Colombian actor
1964 – Don Van Natta, Jr., American journalist
1964 – David Spade, American comedian
1965 – Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor
1965 – Shawn Michaels, American professional wrestler
1966 – Shaun Cohen, South African professional wrestler
1966 – Tim Brown, American football player
1967 – Lauren Booth, British journalist
1967 – Pat Badger, American musician Extreme
1968 – Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
1969 – Despina Vandi, Greek singer
1970 – Jason Becker, American musician
1970 – Craig Baird, New Zealander racing driver
1970 – Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player
1971 – Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
1972 – Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
1972 – Seth Fisher, American comic book artist and penciller (d. 2006)
1972 – Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
1973 – Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
1973 – Daniel Jones, Australian musician (Savage Garden)
1973 – Mike Sweeney, American baseball player
1973 – Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer
1974 – Franka Potente, German actress
1974 – Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong actress
1977 – Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
1978 – Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
1978 – A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
1978 – Martyn Lee, English radio presenter
1978 – Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer
1979 – Lucas Luhr, German racing driver
1979 – Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
1979 – James Mason, British professional wrestler
1980 – Scott Dixon, New Zealand racing driver
1980 – Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
1980 – Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
1980 – Tablo, Korean hip-hop musician (Epik High)
1982 – Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri lankan cricketer
1983 – Arsenium, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1983 – Steven Jackson, American football player
1983 – Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and model
1984 – Stewart Downing, English footballer

Deaths
1985 – Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean/American rugby player
1985 – Akira Tozawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1992 – Selena Gomez, American actress
1997 – Field Cate, American actor
1998 – Madison Pettis, American actress
2002 – Prince Felix of Denmark

Holidays and observances
1362 – Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324)
1387 – Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)
1461 – Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
1525 – Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
1540 – John Zápolya, King of Hungary
1619 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
1633 – Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (b. 1616)
1645 – Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
1676 – Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
1726 – Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
1734 – Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England
1789 – Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715)
1802 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist (b. 1771)
1826 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)
1832 – Napoleon II of France (b. 1811)
1852 – Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
1864 – James B. McPherson, American army general, in the Battle of Atlanta (b. 1828)
1869 – John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), (b. 1806)
1902 – Mieczyslaw Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)
1903 – Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
1904 – Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
1908 – William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)
1915 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
1916 – James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
1918 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898)
1920 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
1922 – Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
1932 – Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
1932 – Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer (b. 1867)
1932 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
1934 – John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903)
1950 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1958 – Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
1967 – Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
1968 – Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908)
1970 – George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (b. 1912)
1974 – Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (b. 1900)
1979 – Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
1988 – Duane Jones, American actor (b. 1936)
1989 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
1990 – Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932)
1992 – Wayne McLaren, portrayed the Marlboro Man (b. 1940)
1995 – Harold Larwood, Former England cricketer (b. 1904)
1996 – Rob Collins, English musician (The Charlatans) (b. 1956)
1998 – Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
1999 – Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
2000 – Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
2000 – Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925)
2000 – Claude Sautet, French film director (b. 1924)
2001 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
2003 – Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
2003 – Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
2003 – Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
2004 – Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
2004 – George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
2004 – Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
2005 – Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician killed by Scotland Yard (b. 1978)
2006 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
2006 – James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950)
2007 – Jarrod Cunningham New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
2007 – Mike Coolbaugh former baseball player and coach (b. 1972)
2007 – Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
2007 – Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (b. 1906)
2007 – Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian-born cinematographer (b. 1933)
2008 – Estelle Getty American comedic actress (b. 1923)
2008 – Greg Burson American Voice Actor (b. 1949)

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